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Hi I have a friend who likes to play euro truck/farm simulator and cities skylines.
He has a 6700hq laptop with a 950m and 8gb of ram and they all run very poorly, and he removed cities skylines from his laptop because it wasn't worth playing with such poor performance.
I am trying to help him build a pc that will run at 1080p high settings.
To help I have a spare ryzen 1700 with cooler and 2x8gb of 3000mhz cl14 gskill ripjaws V ram if this can be used in the process.
I was wondering whether it would do the job as I have read that cities skylines is cpu and ram demanding, but does not use more than 3 cores.
I was thinking that a 1050ti could run Farming simulator and eurotruck from what I can find, as it is a gpu that I can at least find available for a price that isn't ridiculous? It appears to be around £100 used. Or should I look to get something better?
The main issue is the motherboard. My friend in the future could look to upgrade to an ultrawide when gpu prices come down and there is availability, hopefully in the next year so he wants a motherboard that he could potentially drop in something like a 5600x for the demand of the extra resolution.
Are b550 micro atx motherboards backwards compatible to a 1700? Or are there older micro atx motherboards that are available to buy brand new that can upgrade to zen 3?
He has a 6700hq laptop with a 950m and 8gb of ram and they all run very poorly, and he removed cities skylines from his laptop because it wasn't worth playing with such poor performance.
I am trying to help him build a pc that will run at 1080p high settings.
To help I have a spare ryzen 1700 with cooler and 2x8gb of 3000mhz cl14 gskill ripjaws V ram if this can be used in the process.
I was wondering whether it would do the job as I have read that cities skylines is cpu and ram demanding, but does not use more than 3 cores.
I was thinking that a 1050ti could run Farming simulator and eurotruck from what I can find, as it is a gpu that I can at least find available for a price that isn't ridiculous? It appears to be around £100 used. Or should I look to get something better?
The main issue is the motherboard. My friend in the future could look to upgrade to an ultrawide when gpu prices come down and there is availability, hopefully in the next year so he wants a motherboard that he could potentially drop in something like a 5600x for the demand of the extra resolution.
Are b550 micro atx motherboards backwards compatible to a 1700? Or are there older micro atx motherboards that are available to buy brand new that can upgrade to zen 3?